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Web application security measures

Web application security measures : Firewalls A firewall is a piece of software (or hardware) that controls what services are exposed to the network. This means blocking or restricting access to every port except for those that should be publicly available. On a typical server, a number services may be running by default. These can be categorized into the following groups: Public services that can be accesses by anyone on the internet, often anonymously. A good example of this is a web server that might allow access to your site. Private services that should only be accessed by a select group of authorized accounts or from certain locations. An example of this may be a database control panel. Internal services that should be accessible only from within the server itself, without exposing the service to the outside world. For example, this may be a database that only accepts local connections. Firewalls can ensure that access to your software is restricted accord

Best tools to understanding about your website traffic without writing complex code - Open Source | Business Intelligence

10 tools that you can use to gain more understanding about your website traffic  Clusters correspond well to the roles each data scientist plays in general:   Cluster 1 -- Business Intelligence Cluster 2 -- Hadoop and Data Engineering Cluster 3 -- Machine Learning and Data Analytics Cluster 4 -- Data Visualization   1. Google Analytics. Google Analytics  is one of the best free tools that any website owner can use to track and analyze data about Web traffic. You get to see what keywords are bringing the most visitors to your pages and what aspects of your designs are turning them off. This tool will generate a report for your website that includes information about visitors, traffic sources, goals, content and e-commerce. The downside of Google Analytics is that it can take time to update. (The real-time version is still in beta testing.) There are other tools that offer real-time updates of your data now. 2. Spring Metrics. Spring Metrics  has taken the analytics to

AWS Cloud Architecture for Web Hosting | Key Components of an AWS Web Hosting Architecture

Security Architecture of AWS | Amazon Web Server Working of AWS Architecture. Content Delivery Edge caching is still relevant in the Amazon Web Service cloud computing infrastructure. Any existing solutions in your web application infrastructure should work just fine in the AWS cloud. One additional option, however, is made available when using AWS, which is to utilize the Amazon CloudFront service1 for edge caching your website Like other Amazon Web Services, there are no contracts or monthly commitments for using Amazon CloudFront – you pay only for as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the service. Managing Public DNS  Moving a web application to the AWS cloud requires some DNS changes to take advantage of the multiple availability zones that AWS provides. To help you manage DNS routing, AWS provides Amazon Route 534 , a highly available and scalable DNS web service. Queries for your domain are automatically routed to the nearest DNS server and th

What are some great online tools for startups or Entrepreneursucation, SaaS, online PR, networking, funding etc. .

What are some great online tools for startups or Entrepreneurs What are some web apps that cater to startups? They can be anything in the areas of SEO, marketing, education, SaaS, online PR, networking, funding etc. Please don't answer with a link to your startup. You are welcome however if you explain why is it great/innovative. Answer Request Follow 1.8k ANSWER WIKI Market Intelligence tools Alexa (Amazon) -  Actionable Analytics for the Web Unomy  - http://unomy.com Hoover's (D&B) -  http://hoovers.com Insideview  - http://insideview.com Similarweb  - SimilarWeb.com - Competitive Intelligence Tool App Annie -  https://appannie.com Avention  - Avention  | OneSource | Global Company Data Resource Rainking  - Home | RainKing Online On-site Analytics Google analytics -  http://analytics.google.c om Keen IO -  http://keen.io Kissmetrics  - http://kissmetrics.com Woo